CommentLuv is nice, and I managed to set up comments so that you can reply to them in Wordpress options somewhere. My memory is a bit at a loss right now (my host seems to be down so I can't check) but I'm sure I use something that enables people to edit their own comments.

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As for threaded comments, I looked into that for another blog of mine, and the conclusion was that, if the theme doesn't already support them, it's a major pain in the ass. This was a few months ago, so maybe things have changed...

After doing some further digging on this, Jen's right. If I'm going to enable threaded conversations and COmmentLuv, I need to strt hacking about with my Wordpress theme. While it's not difficult, it is time consuming. I'll probably push it out till next month when I have a bit more free time.

Intense Debate seems a pretty nice comment plugin, I know Tam uses it and one or two others I have seen using it too, though when I attempted to implement it it messed up my comments big time. For example, my most recent post with 8 comments, when I clicked through had 2 comments posted 7 weeks ago... For now I've disabled it, but if it doesn't do that (fixed when I disabled it - phew!) then it seems pretty cool.

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Actually yeah, I like it on other blogs but it messed up my comments, I lost a few that were posted while it was up while I was waiting for a reply (5 DAYS I had to have it up before I gave up..). So yeah, IntenseDebate was a no go. I've heard good things about Disque but I have threaded comments and a few plugins to improve them (Ajax Edit thingy, CommentLuv, Subscribe to Comments, Smileys) and that does the job just fine

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I had nothing but good luck on Disqus when I was on blogger, and it's very "subtle." It provides support for importing/exporting blogger comments where IntenseDebate says "screw you." However, Disqus did not integrate well into my self-hosted WP. It refused to show the comment number.

IntenseDebate is working for me - for now - because it integrates well into WP. However, Tam has been having issues with it lately, and if I have problems with it, I suspect I'll go back to default WP comments. ID allows you to separate pingbacks and normal comments, which is why I am sticking with it. I was able to tweak the CSS so it looks more integrated (no weird borders). IT seems like ID has more moderation options than default WP but I could be wrong about that. It also provides the "subscribe by e-mail/rss" thingy.

I am using the default comments as I had some pingback issues with ID. I was gonna download ajax for comment stuff but it wouldn't play nice with my theme.

Here are the plugins I'm using:

1. Comment Luv

2. Comment form toolbar. Not sure I'm going to keep this as the tooltips are in RUSSIAN, but I do like that people can bold, etc without hand-coding html.

3. Editable Comments. Users can edit their comments for 30 mins, or whatever you specify. YOU, as admin, can edit comments by clicking on the link next to each comment without going into the admin panel. It didn't glitch with my system... Ajax did.

4. Subscribe to comments. The e-mail subscription check box

5. Subscribe to Comments NOW! This is the e-mail form that I have at the end of the comments page for if you want to subscribe by e-mail without commenting. Yeah... some people might want to do that.

However, fake pingbacks have been a problem for me. Obviously captcha etc doesn't work for those, because... well it's a computer talking to a computer, that's the very nature of the ping! I have various random crap working to keep those under control after I got 900 in ONE DAY.

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